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Weekly Kid's Co-Op: Inspired by...Link-Up + Play {In Season}

If you saw our Autumn Nature Sensory Bin or follow the blog on Facebook, you know that we have a lot of pine cones (you only see a few in the bin, but we actually have 13!!). So, this week I drew inspiration from the Kid's Co-Op from previous weeks and set up a pine cone decorating and leaf painting Invitation to Play for Wild Thing (during Caterpillar's nap because I do not think I could have handled having the 15 month old also trying to engage with the paint, glitter, glue and pointy pine cones).

This was our set-up, and I have to credit The Imagination Tree with this turn of phrase-Invitation to Play!

Painting was definitely his favorite thing to do with the pine cones and leaves. Once the decorating was done, we hung the pine cones and leaves in some trees outside. My goal was to hang them all in one tree that is completely dead, but Wild Thing wanted to spread the decorations around, so that is what we did! So much fun!! To see our trees before and more about our set up, make sure you are following on Facebook! We shared this at Craft Moms Share: Sharing Saturday.

I shared this activity as part of The Sunday Showcase and Outdoor Families Fall Activities Link Up! Day 2 of 21: Today, I am grateful for Mother Nature. She nurtures our family - body, mind and soul through providing healthy grains, fruits and vegetables, etc. to eat as well as beautiful pine cones, leaves and trees to bolster our creativity and imaginations.

The kids coop is a lovely fit with Country Kids, some great ideas linked up here which would be good for both. Thank you for linking with me on Country Kids, I think your leaf and cone decorations could be great as a Xmas idea too.

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